PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 191, 3 August 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. K, Marsh, who lias been connected with the Immigration and Lund .Settlement Departments for over 45 years, linallv retired from the Civil Service on Friday 011 superannuation, states a Christchurch wire. Mr. Marsh has received a very eulogistic letter Irom the Under Secretary of Lands, conveying t'lie appreciation of the Department of his work. | Mr. and Mrs. j>alhany returned to | from Wellington on Saturday night. i lion, Oliver Samuel, M.L.0., returned 1 from Wellington on aSturday night. Mr. Herbert J. M. Wells, from Diui- [ edin. who has been appointed mauager of the local brunch of the Xew Zealand I Clothing Factory, arrived in toWn on ' Friday and commences his new duties to-day. Mr. Wells has bad an extensive Fnglish and colonial experience. CJrea interest attached to a recent society wadding which took place in London. There were several reasons for this, l>ul the point of chief intercut 'consisted in the fact that the united ages of the bride and bridegroom total* vd somewhere about 130 years. The bridegroom was Lord Portman, a widower, well advanced in his 70th year. The bride was Mrs Livingstone-Lear-mouth, a lady only seven years younger than the bridegroom; she was given away by her son. Lord Portman, t)he representative of a family which branched out 000 years ago from the ancient Gloucestershire house of the Berkleys, of Berkley Castle, is a great London landlord. lie is a sportsman in the best sense of the word, and must be the oldest master of fox-hounds? iH England.